News UK gets first marketplace for second-hand steel bridges The idea is to give steel spans and other elements a second career, cutting material costs and embodied carbon.
Technical Morgan Sindall flies high with RAF base school development RAF Alconbury is being redeveloped into a new Cambridgeshire community with its Education Campus, featuring two steel-framed schools
News Contractors warn government steel strategy will hike prices The constructional steelwork sector has given a lukewarm reaction to the Government’s new steel strategy.
Technical Structural Steel Design Awards 2025: Commended projects Six structural steel projects received commendations at this year’s awards.
Technical Structural Steel Design Awards 2025: Merit projects and finalists Three structural steel projects received Merits at the SSDA 2025 and another six were finalists.
Technical Steel serves an indoor winner Topped with an undulating roof, inspired by the shape of wooden tennis rackets, the Indoor Tennis Centre is the latest addition to The All England Lawn Tennis Club’s facilities.
Technical Steel goes back to school with Quakers Emerging from the post-Covid outdoor learning landscape, weathering steel has created a sculptural pavilion canopy to span a teaching and performance space at an Irish grammar school.
Technical Steel rides high with Porsche Sculpture A complex sculpture, supporting six Porsche sports cars, is an exemplary application of steelwork efficiency and design.
Technical Steel’s Severn crossing in the faithful city Connected to the National Cycle Network, a new river crossing in Worcester has created a sustainable commuting option for the city’s northern neighbourhoods.
Technical Steel’s green signal at Moorgate Occupying a previously vacant City of London plot, 21 Moorfields spans an important underground station with an architecturally detailed exposed steel frame.
Technical Gigafactory is fully charged with steel Helping to deliver a significant increase in UK electric vehicle battery production, a gigafactory in Sunderland has set new benchmarks in modular and efficient construction.
Technical The steel super sheds: inside construction’s booming logistics sector The rapid rise of internet shopping has led to growing demand for distribution warehouses, which in turn are getting bigger and quicker to build. Martin Cooper reports.
Digital Construction A solution for structural steel reuse The RESTOR project excited the judges with its potential for facilitating the reuse of steel sections – and won the Delivering Sustainability with Digital Innovation category at the Digital Construction Awards 2025.
Technical Rebar ready for product assurance reform Dame Judith Hackitt’s warning at November’s CIOB lecture about independent assurance for construction products was not new. In the same lecture 12 months earlier, Paul Morrell highlighted this point –…
News McAlpine to build electric arc furnace at Port Talbot steelworks Sir Robert McAlpine has been appointed by Tata Steel to construct an electric arc furnace at Port Talbot steelworks, under a construction management contract. McAlpine will be responsible for managing…
Technical Home help with light-gauge steelwork A new light-gauge steel specification offers help for housebuilders looking to accelerate delivery. By Nick Barrett.
Technical How Mace built Landsec’s low-carbon hybrid A hybrid steel and CLT solution, combined with a retained 1950s structure, helped cut construction-related CO2 on a Landsec scheme where Mace is main contractor. Martin Cooper reports from Southwark
Technical Structural Steel Design Awards 2024: 8 Bishopsgate, London Soaring from a plot bounded by two of the City of London’s busiest thoroughfares, 8 Bishopsgate is the UK’s tallest structure to achieve a BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ rating.
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